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Why CAR NK Cell Therapy Research Is Quickly Growing
Aug 05, 2022
What is CAR-T? The full name of CAR here is Chimeric Antigen Receptor, its structure includes extracellular domain, transmembrane domain, and an intracellular signal domain. Read More >
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How to Measure the Viral Titer of Lentivirus Vectors?
Jun 06, 2022
In this article, we will introduce some commonly used lentivirus titer detection methods to assess the quality of the virus and maintain experimental consistency. Read More >
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Lili Zhou's Team Reveals a New Mechanism of Renal Fibrosis
May 25, 2022
In March 2022, the team of Professor Lili Zhou from Southern Medical University in China published a paper entitled “β-catenin-controlled tubular cell-derived exosomes play a key role in fibroblast activation via the OPN-CD44 axis” in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, the top impact factor (IF=25.841) journal in the field of exosome research. Read More >
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Genetic Factors of Eye Disease: Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) & the RHO Gene
May 23, 2022
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous blinding retinal disease, which belongs to the large group of inherited retinal degenerations —for which 54 retinal genes have been found to be mutated thus far. Read More >
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What is Huntington's Disease?
May 20, 2022
Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is a neurodegenerative disease that has a 50% probability of being inherited by children of people living with HD. Read More >
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Amyotrophic Laternal Sclerosis (ALS) - A Rare Disease More Common in EU&US
May 16, 2022
ALS is a motor neuron disease (MND), which is a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurons with secondary damage to muscles. The data shows that the incidence rate in Europe and the United States is higher, at 2.6/105, and the prevalence rate is almost double, at 7-9/105. Read More >
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Racing Against Time to Treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), A Fatal Disease
May 11, 2022
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. Read More >
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Preclinical Pharmacological Model of CAR T-Cell Therapy
May 06, 2022
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Carvykti, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy product jointly developed by Legend Biotech and Johnson & Johnson, for the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. Read More >
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Webinar Q&A
May 04, 2022
Cyagen recently hosted a live webinar covering the generation of genomically humanized mouse models for applications in preclinical research. Herein, we offer an extremely brief overview of the presentation and provide Dr. Ouyang’s personal responses to all the questions submitted during the webinar session. Read More >
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What Do You Know about the Quality Control of rAAV Virus?
May 02, 2022
The production and preparation of rAAV is a key and difficult point in gene therapy, because the packaging system and purification method of rAAV will influence the infection efficiency and the expression efficiency of the target gene, and ultimately affect the results. Read More >